Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality